jeff, i know you have some new details on what we can expect to hear from former president barak obama and former first lady michelle obama, who is set to deliver we are told a very powerful message in her hometown of chicago. what are your sources telling you wolf to this hometown crowd and chicago here at the united center, of course, home of the famed chicago bulls? yes, both obama's will be speaking this evening. former president barak obama will be laying out his case for why he believes democrats entity to americans at large should elect vice president kamala harris, but i am told the obama to watch tonight is michelle obama, the harris campaign believes that her message will resonate louder outside this convention hall. she of course, very seldom talks about politics. she often does not want to get in the fray. it's been several years since she's delivered a big political niccol speech like this, we all remember back to the 2016 a convention in philadelphia, she famously said, when they go low, we go high and adviser said, she will deliver an updated version of that the bottom l

arena here in electrified it last night. >> is sets the stage, as you noted, for michelle obama in barak obama to come in and provide some definition to what we've seen in this excitement for the democratic party over the past 30 days. >> now, we know barack obama is so good at delivering speeches but it was his wife, as you noted, who tore the roof off last night let's listen to what she had to say and we've got to do if we say a bad poll and we when we got them put down that phone and do something we start feeling tired if we start feeling that dread creeping back in, we got to pick ourselves up, throw water on her face and what we only have two-and-a-half months. >> y'all, to get this done so as i talk about given direction in definition to this excitement, democrats 30, 35 days ago, we're in a totally different situation as we all recall. >> the excitement behind joe biden's candidacy was just not there. we are seeing that now with camila harris, i have to say though i got to tell you what would be exhausting to be in the middle of a fight between michelle obama in barak obama, because the

y el expresidente barak obama serÁ el orador principal esta noche en el segundo dÍa de la convenciÓn la hija d biden presentÓ al presidente en la convenciÓn. jorge: nuestro corresponsal tiene lo mÁs importante de la convenciÓn hasta ahora. luis: aquÍ todavÍa resuenan los ecos de las palabras de el presidente biden. Único curso que biden hubiese preferido no haber tenido quedar. los delegados lo ovacionaron durante cuatro minutos sin parar. Él es senador de nevada. >> vamos a seguir en los prÓximos aÑos trabajando para que mÁs jÓvenes se interesen por la polÍtica. luis: biden es ahora el pasado del partido, harris el futuro. esta noche el expresidente barak obama le irÁ a los delegados por quÉ dejarles ihmir smith—marsette la primera presidenta electa del paÍs. esta es la noche de un grupo simbÓlico Ética de estado confirma a viva voz la nominaciÓn le harris. >> vamos a luchar para confirmar que la vicepresidenta kamala harris es la prÓxima candidata a presidenta por el partido demÓcrata. jorge: se encuentra con nosotros. algo que tal vez muchos no pueden entender es quÉ es lo que hac

el expresidente barak obama contrastÓ el discurso de kamala harris. elle la que dio el discurso mÁs persuasivo de la noche. >> [habla en inglÉs] >> nos encanta obama, pero muchos querÍan que michelle fuera la presidenta. reportero: los demÓcratas quieren contrastar la visiÓn humana de los inmigrantes con la que ofrece donald trump. >> hemos perdido la sensibilidad a las cosas que Él ha dicho, pero que alguien te hable de esta forma y diga que los inmigrantes no merecen derechos es importante. es una indignaciÓn. ilia: quÉ se espera del discurso de tim walz esta noche? enrique: la campaÑa de harry cree que muchos estadounidenses van a identificarse con tim walz y muy parecido a muchos otros en el paÍs que han pasado tiempos difÍciles. por supuesto, los republicanos dicen que esta imagen es falsa. ilia: exfuncionarios del gobierno del ex presidente donald trump han estado hablando en la convenciÓn nacional demÓcrata. jorge: tambiÉn hay republicanos que hacen campaÑa para evitar que donald trump regrese a la presidencia. reportera: son republicanos que no

happening ahead of night two of the democratic national convention on deck tonight, former president barak obama and first lady michelle obama will also be hearing from second gentleman, doug emhoff. i want to bring in our political commentators. we have republican strategist shermichael singleton and senior adviser to hillary free clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. karen finney with us and another lovely sound check which is loud and sounds great we may have to do a little lip reading. so just, you know, here, i wonder hearing what you were looking for tonight from former president obama. >> i think it's critical that former president obama does a couple important it is to be engaged, to stay engaged, and to vote for kamala harris. we need those voters, some of whom, as we know, were people who hadn't voted for democrats before to come back to the democratic party if they didn't vote for joe biden in 2020 and the second thing is really part of this passing of the torch, passing the mantle of the democratic party. because when we leave here on thursday, it will be clear that this is kamala ha

through the week, night to wrapping up a short time after the headliner speech from former president barak obama, as well as former first lady michelle obama was going to cnn's jeff zeleny. so jeff, after the obamas spoke at the convention on what are they planning to do next to campaign. >> i understand hearing that the obamas work did not end here tonight. both a former president barack obama and first lady michelle obama have pledged to the harris campaign to do whatever they need over the next 11 weeks to campaign. and that is no small thing. i'm told that just yesterday in chicago, the former president recorded some videos for the harris campaign and he is willing to go on the road and campaign with her whatever they need. but talking to an advisor this evening after the speech, he says this, they are all in you saw that here tonight and anderson, from my position here on the podium, i could see behind stage and watching former president barak obama watch his wife onstage, watching michelle obama on stage. this is not a speech that she wanted to give. we heard her say that at the very begin

turn out their base and if camilla harrison get the historic or near historic black turnout that barak obama got in his two election campaigns. then that puts her in good stead. it's not enough though. you have to compete and win, or at least breakeven in the american suburbs, brock obama did that twice. in my travels, you meet a lot of people, a lot of republicans, who maybe didn't vote for brock obama, or maybe who did once who remember the obamas in the white house, that would dignify, they were respectful, they had those cute girls who became beautiful young women in the family. so i think the optics tonight, given how donald trump is campaigning against harris, i think the optics of oh yeah, we did that for eight years it was pretty good for the country, even if he didn't like it, even if you're republican, i didn't vote for it. we're all still here. right? we weren't in any big wars at the time. the optics to me, given how donald trump is campaigning against the vice president for almost as important as the very powerful works yeah we're gonna be playing you a lot of the comments from

i mean, obama, barak obama, the president, literally said passing the torch. so it's not subtle with michelle obama. there is something that she did which was almost we're passing the torch over joe biden, she didn't mention joe biden. >> yeah. >> that was hard not to notice, right? she had zero mention of joe biden, the person that her husband put on the ticket and sort of elevated him to this new potential in his long storied career. and yet barak obama did make sure to dedicate several paragraphs of the speech to joe biden and to give him a tribute, perhaps a, that was one reason why michelle obama didn't feel it was necessary. she, it was the husband's speech, but also we know that michelle obama saw her role here as far different. it wasn't to check every box of political speech and that's the thing about michelle obama. she's not a figure, she transcends politics in many ways, and she understands the power of that. you know, when she walked out on the stage, i thought about her book tour when it came out the best-selling book, how she played two arenas li

sanchez, is in washington and it is day two here at the convention where tonight former president barak obamarst lady michelle obama will be taking kamala harris should be the 47th president of the united states. second gentleman, doug emhoff, will a

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so that's historic in and of itself, even more historic than barak obama. but i think the real historic nature here is that is her message. a reporter asked me the other day, can you summarize it in one sentence? and i said, no, i can summarize it in one word, freedom. >> this used to be the, one of the great things that republicans had going for them. >> this time. because of the repeal of the dobbs decision because of the restrictions put on abortion she is going to run on freedom and the freedom to stay out of our business just stay out of the business of women and families and it's an incredibly powerful issue. and i think it will be historic for that reason. >> alright, land came mark. thank you so much. glad you could be with us today have fun next. >> thanks for having me all right. >> well, there's gonna be a lot of fun, but there's also a lot of trepidation because purity is ramping up ahead of the start of the dnc on monday, cnn's whitney wild has more on how chicago is preparing for the big event you're at the united center. it is an all hands on

i mean, you can see that it's a lot like 2008 with barak obama. you don't have to articulate who she is or identity at every visit, every single visit. but she can do something nothing, donald trump can't do. donald trump is the oldest candidate in american political history for president of the united states. one of the things that i used to say, donald trump and joe biden were unable to do. and i believe it was a product that their age was give a vision for the future. and so look, people know who donald trump is in for a long period of time, democrats were stuck in this mud where it was subject for donald trump. we don't have to do that anymore allow kamala harris to articulate what a future looks like under her administration, because people are tired in the quote, fannie lou hamer, again, sick and tired of being sick and tired. this is the dystopian view of this country is not one that i recognize but the racism the race card that donald trump place is still a tag for my republican friends. i think america just doesn't buy it anymore, but we'

the closing speaker because she is just such a masterful speech or sort of the distance between barak obama and michelle obama as orators. i think it's growing right? i think she has gone to a level that i've rarely seen in american politics. >> i mean, that's long been what's been on the minds of a lot of chicagoans going back 20 years. shouldn't michelle obama be the one who's just a closer or the candidate she has no interest i mean, in fact, i almost didn't believe it a few days ago and people said she really did not want to do that speech, but i thought how she talked about her mother, marian robinson, how that compelled her to come out and use her powerful voice. that was so interesting. and also former president obama talking about this robinson, of course, he delivered the eulogy at her funeral not long ago, a few months ago right here on the south side of chicago. but talking about how she was not pretentious, talking about really bringing it all together. it reminded me of when he was talking about his grandmother, who we referenced last night at one of his final campaign rallies

you're seeing michelle and barak obama talk about, okay. it's time to unite behind her. she is sort of r next leader and so i'm curious to see in the next two days how different factions and different people continue to pull out different facets and define her in that way. >> all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning, the dnc roll call was turned up lil john helping the delegates from georgia cast the votes in true atlanta fashion, plus an emotional moment from the texas delegation, a woman you might remember telling her story about how the state's abortion ban upended upended her life. we will speak with kate cox later on in the show comedy is coming to cnn what could go wrong i got news for you from the saturday, september 14 at nine on cnn. okay. yeah, we got orders coming in and business is never easy. a star now, eight months pregnant, that's the difference. the story. >> i couldn't slow down. we were starting a business from the ground-up. people were showing up left right. and so did our business needs the chase economy made it easy. >> when you go for somet

there was 16 years to go where barak obama, in 2008, was able to win. but in 2020, joe biden actually came very close in that race in north carolina with trump's. so that's why there's a huge focus there, but i do want to shift gears and tell you what he also told kristen holmes yesterday, which was he admitted about rfk junior, that he would actually fully consider putting him in as his administration also said, he would welcome his endorsement. take a listen i would love that endorsement because i've always liked him would consider putting him in the administration you're asking me a very unusual no question. i haven't been asked that question yet. >> i like him a lot. i respect him a lot i probably would if something like that would happen he's very different kind of a guy, very smart guy and i would be honored by that endorsement so john and sara, i mean we haven't heard that from donald trump getting reminder that earlier in the day yesterday, nicole shanahan, rfk junior's running mate, had said that he would rfk junior was considering potentially

and barak obama is the headliner tonight. >> what do you expect to hear from that former president? >> well, i don't i haven't seen his speech, but no, but i think the important thing for every everyone who makes it presentation at this convention is to talk about that contrast. the contrast and rights. a contrast on social security, medicare, medicaid, the contrasts on tax policy, which is going to be a big fight because in 2025, we're going to decide whether or not we're going to continue to give away the store to big corporations and rich people like republicans do when they have power or they're going to give the middle-class attacks yet give some relief to working families. all right. senator bob casey, thanks very much. are turning on the music that's not to wrap you up. this is not the academy awards, jim, good to be with, gonna be good to be with you. thanks, senator. appreciate it very much coming up. a historic endorsement. a leader of the nation's oldest latino civil rights group joins me to explain why they're supporting kamala harris be right back we've all been program

jorge: maÑana va a hablar al expresidente barak obama. kamala harris va dar el discurso de cierre.tos es aumentar el pollo hispano. —— el apoyo hispanos. donald trump tiene 38% del voto latino. reportero: en un calendario electoral que se mueve de forma vertiginosa, los demÓcratas llegan con una misiÓn en mente. presentar un frente unido para su candidata. esta noche va hablar el mismo biden que hasta hace un mes era el candidato del partido. >> esto es algo sin precedentes. y no damos nada por sentado. estamos haciendo todo el trabajo y estamos muy esperanzados. reportero: las ola de entusiasmo creada por harris en un mes estÁ reflejÁndose en las encuestas. muchos votantes hispanos hayan dejado a biden y ahora estÁn con kamala harris y todavÍa pueden armas. —— todavÍa puede ganar mÁs. esta maÑana tim walz se hizo presidente en una asamblea hispana. el secretario de educaciÓn dice que es mucho lo que estÁ en juego. >> para mÍ la decisiÓn es bastante clara y tenemos que entender que tenemos la voz, tenemos el voto. tenemos que estar presentes o podemos perder mucho. para mÍ el mensa

has everyone who's been on a democratic ticket before she's got hillary clinton, bill clinton, barak obama saying, there is room for anyone here if you're more of a bill clinton democrat, don't worry, i'm not too far out of the mainstream. you can be with me. so i think they're really running a smart art race in this should be a very big week for her campaign, but donald trump's back out on the campaign trail after basically playing golf for a couple of weeks because i think he's feeling that she's got serious momentum nationally mean this is a chance for vice versa. harris to define herself to a lot of people who maybe don't know much better yeah. >> just to the excitement point, if your organizer, it's a lot easier to make a phone call with excitement to convert that to a volunteer shift that then actually closes that gap and speaks to voters is which is what they're going to have to do to win this race because it is extremely tight, so it's a lot easier to do that. and then from a depressed basis questioning whether that should even be the candidate. but on this point, i was looking at

and of course, the big event coming up, abby phillip barak, obama, michelle obama are going to speakhis evening in right now. we are waiting for doug emhoff this week there's so much that people do not know about vice president kamala harris of more than a third of registered voters according to one boy saw, said, they really don't even know what she stands for. this all happened. so quickly and it is almost always the spouse who fills in the blanks most importantly, obviously, the blanks of who she is as a human being and for this particular couple, they are relatively unique for this position, but certainly not unique in america, and that they are part of a blended family until we expect him to lean into how she came into his life as somebody who's divorced his ex-wife, you mentioned this earlier. >> is here is part of the extent did modern family and how she brought his kids into her life and how they connect it. all of that. yeah. i mean, it's an unconventional family sorry. >> i mean, the two of them met later in both of their lives. and even though she herself does not have bio

if some of donald trump's previous statements questioning where barak obama, president obama was born. and then we'll talk on the other side. >> the fact is, if he wasn't born in this country shouldn't be the president of the united states. there's a real question about the birth certificate. three weeks ago when i started, i thought he was probably born in this country and now i really have a much bigger doubt than i did before. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate? so we know that ultimately did lead barack obama to show his birth certificate wondering in terms of how you think is best for kamala harris and her campaign to respond to these attacks. once again these veiled swipes at her ethnicity, at her background how much how much emphasis, how much effort should she put in in combatting this? >> well, in my view, i think that she should be straightforward in responding. but i would not allow donald trump's racial resentment to meyer hurricane to the sea. i don't think that she should be quiet in the face of these attacks, but they should shouldn't spend all of her time res

you've got former president barak obama, former president bill clinton, michelle obama illinois governor, i mean, tell me more about the lineup here and the positioning of all of these speakers and hillary clinton well, certainly you know, you have the the what i would like to call the elders of the party, hillary clinton, bill clinton, at this point. >> now, barack obama really the folks school who, brought, the party to where it is now. but again, there has to be this passing of the torch that we're going to see this week were younger democrats, you're going to probably hear more from younger down bruhat's when we have heard in past conventions. and this whole idea that the democratic party is the party of the future. now whether or not they can convey that we'll see that over the next four days, but it will be interesting to see the likes of michelle obama delivering this. did this passion, this oratory that she doesn't necessarily speak often. but when she does speak, people do listen. and then of course, the straight talk that we'll hear from barak obama two members of his own party

clooney in this sort of inside baseball political reporting, someone called him like a drone for barak obama, which i found completely wild, but it did get at this idea that people believe he didn't do enough. >> and it sounds like from your reporting, biden believe that too that obama didn't do enough? >> yeah that'll help him to write which he already hadn't done in 2016 during the clinton yeah look, there they have a long fraught relationship with obama and biden. i don't know that a message like the one pelosi delivered would have been receipt well received from joe biden, from brock obama. there's a chance that could have backfired. joe biden has a chip on his shoulder about how he was treated by the obama team sometimes then maybe would have made him dug in more nancy pelosi was a lot of first of all, a lot of people delivered this message to him. he met with hakeem jeffries one-on-one. he met with chuck schumer. they were all delivering same message of deep concern about the future of the house, the senate and the white house. but nancy pelosi could speak to him as appear my story out

of surrogates especially the bama's and the clintons, a senior adviser for the former president barak obama saying that he wants to go to places where he thinks he can move the needle. so anticipate a lot of movement on the campaign trail over the next several weeks, but at least in the immediate future, wolf, the focus is certainly going to be on that september debate. >> yes. good point. priscilla alvarez reporting for us. thank you very much. not on another breaking story, we're following donald trump launching new attacks on kamala harris during his campaign, swing through the southwest. cnn's alayna treene is in las vegas force. that's where the former president held an event earlier this afternoon, alayna, how is trump reacting to kamala harris is convention speech last night, which was so well-received oh well. >> well he clearly didn't like it and you could see that not even just from his remarks today, but also last night he did really a live play by play of reacting to harris's remarks in real time, you saw him posting several times on truth social, attacking her remarks, but also

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cnn shimon prokupecz, back in march do you still stand by your comments about former president barak obamat he should be executed calling for the death of other presidents. >> do you stand by that? we're doing do you stand by those comments? >> have a good night. >> do you stand by? what you've said about the public education system and that it needs to be destroyed. know, do you stand by that? >> no. >> no. do you understand the concern that people have with this nomination that you now have a whole lot of no comment there. she obviously did not want to answer. shimon is questions with me now, is andrew kaczynski of the kfile senior editor, who has the details on this new item on covered on morrow tied to january 6. so andrew, what have you learned here? >> so meryl was at january 6, first at that rally, were then she proceeded to the capital where she was in a restricted area that had been cordoned off by police. now, in these couple of images, i want people to look at x0 that were from videos that we uncovered. she was there as rioters were breaking in to the building. now, there's no e

momentum in what is basically a neck and neck race with remarks by top democrats from barak dem from barak obama to bill clinton hillary clinton, and president biden, who will appear with harris on stage tomorrow night at a much at a m different convention then was originally planned for him while donald trump tries to keep some of the spotlight on himself this week with his own events. last night at a rally in pennsylvania, he made numerous personal attacks against harris, which we'll get into later, but he did also make some policy argument since that perhaps some voters may find persuasive you say she's going to lower to lower the cost of food and housing starting on day one. >> but day one for kamala was three-and-a-half years ago so why didn't she do it then joining me now, democratic leader of the house of representatives, hakeem jeffries of new york, leader jeffries, thanks for joining us at your party's convention is set to kick off tomorrow. >> do you think that the democratic party is in a better place now with vice president harris at the top of the ticket then it was with president b

>> you have pushed false claims about some of your rivals from nikki haley to former president barak obama, saying that they were not born in the united states, which is not true. >> you have told for congress when women of color who were american citizens to go back to where they came from. >> you have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorney's. you've attack black journalists, calling them a losers saying the questions that they asked are quote, stupid and racist you've had dinner with a white supremacist at your mar-a-lago resort so my question, sir. now that you were asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you? after you have used language like that well, first of all, i don't think i've ever been asked a question. >> so in such a horrible manner, first question, you don't even say hello. >> how are you? >> are you with abc? because i think they're a fake news network at terrible and i think it's disgraceful that i came here in good spirit i love the black population of this country. >> i've done so much for the black populati

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his supporters in recent days have affectionately described him as barak obama. that's not to his jewish faith, of course, in a demeanor and tone, they say mirrors former president barak obama, but progressives have raised concerns about his support for school vouchers, which they argue undermines public education and his position on the war in gaza. but he could appeal to moderate democrats. you also have, former nasa astronaut mark kelly. he is a senator from the battleground state of arizona. he brings military experience and he's taken positions to the right of the administration on the border. his wife, the former congresswoman gabrielle giffords she was shot and gravely wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt in both of them have really become strong voices on efforts to thwart gun violence then lastly, you have minnesota governor tim waltz and he's become sort of a dark horse of sorts in this contest. he's extremely funny, a great speaker, a happy warrior, and a strong surrogate for harris. many have described him as the midwestern dad that america needs.

playbook back from 2011, reviving that strategy of his infamous birth or lie, about 400 president barak obama. but fast forward to now and 2024 and today in chicago, in a room full of black journalists list trump questioned vice president harris's identity, saying falsely that she quote, happened to turn black just a few years ago moments ago, we heard the vice president respond for the first time. >> donald trump's spoke at the annual meeting of the national association of black journalists and it was the same old show the divisiveness and the disrespect and let me just say the american people deserve better the american people deserve better the american people deserve a leader who tells the truth a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts we deserve a leader who understands that our differences, do not divide us that's how she's responding. >> trump for his part, not backing down from those comments actually has been leaning in ever since he left that room but let us take you back to how it all began today at that convention of the national associ

and if you're looking to read it like a president barak obama has got you covered the former president released his annual summer reading list on his instagram account, continuing the tradition from his white house years, he recommends eight fiction and six nonfiction titles, books exploring global and american history, culture, religion, gender identity, and more. nonfiction raids include the wide, wide say about kevin james cook and his exploration of the 18th century. for fiction, obama recommends the ministry of time, time travel, love story, and the god of the woods by liz more a thrilling about a thriller a missing child whose disappearance sent shockwaves through different communities. there you go for if you're heading to a beach this summer now, the humble garden longmire became a high octane racing machine in southern england. this weekend drivers from more than 40 team's tour around the track at 50 miles an hour and a custom loomer in well, our endurance race, the races structured like any endurance motorsport with three drivers, but team taking turns behind the wheel and co

is one of the most incredible orders that there's been some jokes going around and lie that he's barak obama, like he's just so extraordinary as an order. if he's our guy, if she has a comfort with him they believe in him and he's gone through the vetting. i mean, i really think he's going to be the pick and look i say i think this can apply to both sides of this, right? and i'm going to speak to those progressives who are nervous about him as an arab american who's very sympathetic to the humanitarian crisis in gaza right now. if she chooses him governor shapiro and governor shapiro helps her when i am 1,000% fine with it because the alternative is donald trump. and if you think as someone who is pro palestine that donald trump will be better for the palestinian people. you don't know what you're talking about, right and the same can be said on the other side, i think to jewish-americans who, who may like if he helps her win, that is better for the country because donald trump is worse. but i mean, we are talking when i bring it up, i'm only bringing it up in the standpoint of that far left

can say i've not felt this kind of energy, electricity at any convention other than the one for barak obama well, now the race has changed, but it actually still is tight a national poll out today shows her making progress compared to biden standings. >> and in fact, it's the first time, but she's lead in a national poll but statistically, the cnn average of the latest polls actually shows no clear leader in the swing states. they're very important swing states that will decide this election they're also tight. you know, who knows it? >> vice president kamala harris very much considered a standard doug, we have a lot of work to do to earn the vote of the american people. that's why we're on this bus tour today. and we're going to be traveling this country as we ben underdog. that's the same word she's when she actually called governor tim walz and asked him to be her running mate. and i wonder if they use of the phrase is a show of humility or concern. and asked for that bus tours she mentioned it was through battleground, pennsylvania today day and she was there along with walz and they we

presidential running mate in his message to the sporting, he is all in and now former president barak obama is weighing in saying in a statement, we showed this to our viewers by selecting tim walz to be her vice president from a pool of outstanding democrats, kamala harris has chosen an ideal partner and made it clear exactly what she stands for, like vice president harris, governor walz believes that government works to serve us, not just some of us, but all of us that's what makes him an outstanding governor. and that's what will make them even better. vice president ready on day one, let's bring in cnn senior political commentator, van jones interesting that barack obama would use that phrase. they're ready on day one. that one is strike saying out to me from the 2008 days when hillary clinton was saying she was ready on day one. i'm going too far down the rabbit hole, but i did want to ask you van i mean, one of the things that is very interesting about barack obama in all of this is that he chose joe biden, obviously as his running mate back in 2008. and tim walz kind of feels like to

next, north carolina hasn't gone blue in a presidential election since barak obama beat john mccain 16 years ago. but there's a reason that vice president kamala harris chose to make her first major policy speech there today is signs giving democrats hope this election cycle. when we return ryan and mikah are taking onto hotel. >> what if i took on one of the hotels and you did the other two teams, we are going to be bryant 100 days and the best hotel when 100 day hotel challenged special series continues tuesday night at 8:00 on hgtv he one. remember, i don't want surgery for my dupa trends contraction to i want to be able to lay my hand flat i want to non-surgical recovery for i want auctions non-surgical options and five and non non-surgical treatment as an auburn okay. did a second i'm going to pick let's go take charge of your treatment. if you can't lay your hand flat, visit, find a hand specialist.com to get started she grew up in a middle-class home. >> she was the daughter of a working mom, and she worked at mcdonald's while she got her degree kamala harris knows what it's lik

building among delegates for another big night of democratic headliners flooding former president barak obama, his wife, former first lady michelle obama, and the man who wants to become the nation's first ever first gentleman. doug emhoff. following our raucous and oftentimes logistically challenged day one of the convention of solutes and send offs and emotional standoffs by the honor, my lifetime serve as your president. you're all this talk about how i'm angry at all those people said i she stepped down it's not, true. i love my country more and we need to preserve our democracy america i gave my best to you an emotional hand off as sort of sorts. biden did not even start speaking until after 11:00 p.m. eastern. his speech going until well after midnight east coast time tonight, we're going to kick off our coverage at 7:00 p.m. eastern. a ceremonial roll call of the states will be held to nominate common hello, are harris and as a tribute to president biden will begin with his beloved home state of delaware, the small wonder state. vice president harris and her running mate, governor tim

>> rana, we know that former president barak obama likes to make the case for democratic candidates as he's done since leaving office. and tonight i'm told he will give a forceful articulation of why he believes the country and democrats should elect a kamala harris? yes. within any individual issues like the economy and democracy is really going to be laying out the stakes and drawing a contrast with former president donald trump. but something that we have seen him do, of course, back in the 2016 campaign, he made a similar argument for hillary clinton. of course, that was not as successful. but this speech, i'm told right here in his hometown of chicago will be slightly different, slightly more elevated, but it is going to be a forceful argument and this is something that is really the ark of the relationship between kamala harris and brock obama. it was 20 years ago this summer that she was actually at his convention seeing him for the first it's time when he had that breakout moment back at the 2004 convention, they became friends over the years. now he's one of her trusted adviso

children, but her star fell nearly as quickly as it rose. >> john mccain and palin eventually lost to barak obama and joe biden, which brings us to obama's breakout moment. men's back in 2000 for 20 years and three weeks ago when he endorsed senator john kerry for president tonight, there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. >> there is the united states of america were those lines then state senator obama stole the show. it was clear that he was the future of the party. not so much the nominee senator john kerry. here's a one liner from carries acceptance speech that year i'm john kerry and i'm reporting for duty this was supposed to. >> play up carrie's honorable military service during the vietnam war, which was attacked at the time with blatant falsehoods by a group called swift boat veterans for truth. >> kerry went on to lose to george w bush. bush's father, george hw bush bush delivered this gem at the 1988 republican convention read my lips but bush sr. did end up raising some existing taxes which contributed to the loss of a second term for him, perhaps the most notable l

this is the same donald trump who claimed that president obama wasn't born in this country. >> he likes to go to his rallies and talk about barak hussein obama. i mean, that is the former president's name, but he says it derisively. i mean, we could go on and on. do you buy this? >> do i buy this? yeah. i don't buy anything from a man and i think i think he must have just seen some of the new polls come out and is it's almost pathetic and somewhat sad. and the less we talk about that man, i think the better, but jim, he played, he created a campaign that was going to be about age and he got it. yeah, the problem is he's on the other side of the table now. and what has transpired is one of those remarkable moments in american political history, which is something i knew a year-and-a-half ago if we could just make that change, what would result and many of us expected to be at a funeral this week and it's turned out to be a birth. >> i do want to ask one more question about governor walz. he will speak to this arena the tonight as he formally accepts the democratic nomination for vice president i mean, republicans have been tryin

this is former first lady michelle obama, and of course former president barak obama. and they are going to be speaking as a couple that can speak to the importance of the presidency, the high stakes of the election coming up in november. and what i'm being told by a source is that when it comes to former president barak obama, key will very much lean into why he believes kamala harris and tim walz are ready to lead the country at this moment. as for michelle obama, the first lady who we haven't heard actually much from during this campaign cycle, she is going to lose lean into this idea that she believes kamala harris is absolutely ready for the job and that she can help the country turned the page. i'm told on fear and division, and she's really going to stress that she believes harris is one of the most qualified candidates to ever seek the presidency. now, we do expect a both obamas to be involved in different ways. is that throughout the course of the campaign, as we get closer to november, the former president and particular is looking for ways to zero in on thos

barak and michelle obama, the stars of the party will point to the future. and i think more represent the future versus pass kind of dichotomy that harris wants to present because, you know, for all of yesterday's kind of legacy building of joe biden, it was a reminder, frankly, of the where the party was just a month ago. you have people like hillary clinton saying that there was such energy in the country, but it was also a reminder that some of the very people on the stage where actually advocating against kind of unleashing that energy when they were supporting joe biden staying in the race. now that he has had his legacy moment in terms of monday night, i think you're going to see tuesday through thursday really point towards the future really point towards harris, his bio, and i think cried. i think tried to re-introduce our to the country and the way that goes beyond the kind of good vibes that we had yesterday. i think it has to happen on the policy front, but it also has to happen. i think on just the presidential readiness front to say that this is

they do you know, she didn't pull punches and neither did barak obama and i've heard this a lot from democrats. i personally disagree. i think we should just elevate the distance scores if we all just get in the mud and play with pigs, that will become our politics. but there is something that fighting back donald trump is a puncher. he doesn't get counterpunch very often and it feels like democrats are prepared to punch back. >> now, wordsmithing though i wonder what you thought about it, scott, because when i heard that the affirmative action of generational wealth, it actually gave me a sense of george w bush's, the soft bigotry of low expectations. >> yeah, well, i was sort of pondering the duality of democrats last night when she said that because you had bernie sanders who closed his speech by decrying the billionaire class then jb pritzker, what allow those were three-and-a-half million dollars. >> it's like a third-generatio n super wealthy billionaire. and then she comes out and decries, you know, the affirmative action of generational wealth, i guess it's a big tent party,

we still have barak obama and bill clinton. but i met joe biden 1987. that was my first campaign for president, 87, 88. that was largely covering governor dukakis, what spent a little time with joe biden in iowa. my next campaign was 1992, and i got to know hilary clinton and the first lady of arkansas so she of course, then went on to be a senator secretary of state presidential nominee we still have barack obama and bill clinton to go. but this was the first chapter in the transitional handoff you heard joe biden at one point, talk about the assault weapons ban he passed with dianne feinstein. she is gone now are replacement in the senate spoke tonight on nancy pelosi just released a book. she's here, she's very high profile but she's the former speaker now. so this giant generational change in the democratic party that has been fomenting for a long time is starting to come into focus of vice president harris came on stage tonight. alexandra ocasio cortez was part of it. a lot of younger democrats on the stage tonight too. so it's a little bit of both

you think about a georgia, if you think about north carolina, north carolina was in play under barak obama because he completely invigorated the black voting population there, the student voting population there. i think that these are, these are the places where she can make serious gains and that's why the map looks different. because that's where he was openly struggling or the way i see report that condition officials are saying that the reason went long is because of all the rockets applause at that sort of thing. you build into we expect him to have had conventions before, like, you know what that's amazing spin. >> straight ahead out of democrats stuck to the facts kristen, their speeches and i will also tie up the convention appearances by the obamas tomorrow tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture coming this fall on cnn. >> he's there when i got there when we leave, he's there whenever we come back home from school, he's just they're always. >> national ever since we introduced him to the farmers dog, his quality the of life has been forever changed. >> he prefers real hu

and i agree he you can hear that he learned from barak obama and that somebody else i heard speak recently in atlanta was senator jon ossoff who also has the obama cadences and way of speaking even if the word you all comes more naturally to ossoff, then shapiro you know, what did they say you know, great artists steal or whatever, bad artists borrow great artists steal. so i mean there it is. >> i mean, it's not, it's not unfair at all. and i think that, you know, good on, him for recognizing that, hey, i learned from this. i borrowed from this. and one of the things i think that was particularly effective that i was actually curious how it will translate know obama and, you know you all who have covered him as well can, can also understand is and he calls an answers to a crowd in a way that is specific. oftentimes to black audiences. i wondered if shapiro could do anything like that and he went, he said, you know, i care about my faith, the crowd started yelling at them to preach. i mean, he i don't want to preach and everybody starts yelling. >> rage. rage seems to me now i maybe had to

and raleigh, north carolina wearing a tar heel blew in a state that democrats haven't won since barak obamaack in 2008. >> but which donald trump, only won by about a point and a half in 2020 kamala harris, they're saying now is the time to chart a new way forward, talking about building an opportunity economy. she described a number of policy positions that candidly may be difficult for democrats to accomplish depending on who gets control of congress. but nevertheless, she tried to differentiate herself with the former president attacking him at different points. >> yeah, she certainly did try to try to draw that contrast there and really personalize her vision of the economy, trying to impress upon americans that she sees them and feels then we have a great panel here. we're going to talk about it more we come back right? >> and mikah are taking on to hotels. >> what if i took on one of the hotels and you did the other two teams, we are going to be bryant 100 days and the best hotel when 100 day hotel the aisle challenged special series continues tuesday night at 8:00 on hgtv when you ge

people set to speak at this week's democratic national convention, former president bill clinton, barak obamairst lady michelle obama. former republican congressman adam kinzinger sources say kinzinger is slated to speak on thursday night, the same evening that vice president kamala harris will address the convention delegates, kinzinger, who is now a cnn political commentator was one of ten house republicans to vote for former president donald trump's impeachment for his role during the attack on the u.s. capitol. i'm joined now by former republican congresswoman for virginia farber. comstock, congresswoman, great to see you good to see you. all right. so this is remarkable, if not unusual. i mean, what important or signaling do you see in fellow republican kinzinger speaking at the convention and on the same night as the democratic nominee well, adam has been very clear and i support them in saying that donald trump could never be near the oval office again, he was on the january 6 committee and highlighting all of the details on how donald trump is unfit for office and what he did i'm not

well, we saw a reminder as to why she was so incredibly effective in helping to get barak obama electedack in 2008. oprah's secret sauce bosses that she meets people where they are and she's able to tap into those vital and important national conversations. and she did that with something that j.d. vance has now famously said last night, let's take a listen when a house is on fire, we don't ask about the homeowners race or religion we don't wonder who they partner or is or how they voted. no we just tried to do the best we can to save them and if the pace place happens to belong to a childless cat lady well we tried to get that cat out to yeah, that childless cat lady thing. that that landed as you can hear and see with the audience. >> for sure a secret sauce that i'm going to, i'm going to live on that all today and i'm going to work on what is my secret sauce, but i digress. what are you hearing about? tonight's special a special appearances that could be coming tonight. >> well, one performer that we're going to have tonight is pink, and it is rare that we see pink be involved this